Land, Measured Building & Underground Survey
Peaky Blinders Filmset, Birmingham

Surveying the space for the Peaky Blinders filmset

Situated across five industrial units, the film studios will offer circa 50,000 square feet of studio space with supporting ancillary production offices and onsite workshops. We were delighted to be asked to provide a range of surveying services across all five units to facilitate the design and build of the studio’s first project – the new Peaky Blinders film.

Digbeth Loc. Studios in the heart of Birmingham’s city centre offers a new home to filmmakers. Owned and operated by TIME + SPACE, the site is part of a crusade to establish Birmingham as a major filming hub.

Situated across five industrial units, the film studios will offer circa 50,000 square feet of studio space with supporting ancillary production offices and onsite workshops. We were delighted to be asked to provide a range of surveying services across all five units to facilitate the design and build of the studio’s first project – the new Peaky Blinders film.

Our services included measured building surveys to provide 2D floor plans and external elevations to enable the set designers to understand and assess the space and its features, which included low hanging Mechanical and Electrical Plants (MEPs). These were conducted using 3D laser scanners as well as traditional total stations.

Our client also requested topographical surveys to depict the surface levels, boundary positions and access points, as well as utilities and drainage surveys to understand what is underneath the building. The utilities surveys were conducted using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), which works by emitting a radar pulse into the ground and analysing the reflections it receives to create an image of the subsurface. CCTV cameras were used to inspect the construction of the site’s drainage.

With filming scheduled to start in the summer of 2023, timelines for completing the surveys and producing the required CAD files and results were extremely tight. The council had been using the units as a depot and for office space, so as soon as it became unoccupied we gained access and conducted the surveys.

Our client was very happy with the output, which provides all the information required to ensure the film set could be designed and built, and was particularly happy with the speed at which we worked.

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